This Week in Amateur Radio

George Bowen, W2XBS
This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1354

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1354 - Full Version Release Date: February 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:45:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1354 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: MO-122 - Newest OSCAR Alive and Well 2. AMSAT: SO-120 Antennas Deployed 3. AMSAT: Fram2Ham SSTV Simulation Onboard The International Space Station 4. RW: Austria's Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Transmission Site Dismantled 5. RW: SiriusXM's SXM-9 Satellite Is Now Operational 6. FCC: FCC Upholds Forfeiture Order Against Amateur Licensee 7. RI: Pallone, Bilirakis Reintroduce AM Radio Act In the US House of Representatives 8. PROP: The Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Shifted Position 9. ARRL: Learning Opportunity - On the Air Live - How To Use Your Handheld Radio 10. ARRL: Training The Next Generation Of Net Controllers 11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Turning 60, Seeking Net Control Operators 12. ARRL: Las Vegas, Nevada, American Legion Paradise Post 149, Will Operate Special Event Station NV7AL 13. ARRL: Young Ladies Radio League, K4LMB, Will Host The 2025 SSB/CW/Digital YL-OM Contest 14. World Radio Day Is Just Ahead On February 13th 15. First Archipelago DxPedition In 23 Years Is Given The Thumbs Up By The Brazilian Navy 16. SSTV Images From First Polar Orbit Space Flight To Be Transmitted By Amateur Radio 17. ACMA Finalizes License Fee Changes For Australian Amateurs 18. Living The Good Life In A Senior Living Community Ham Radio Club 19. In Memory Of Earthquake Victims - Amateurs In Turkey Activate 20. Software Award Nominees Deadline Is Approaching 21. Late Breaking: Senators Wicker, Blumenthal Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Amateur Radio Operators 22. HACK: Parcae: A Trio of Spy Satellites 23. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings 24. HACK: Sony ends manufacturing of Blu-Ray, Mini-Disk, and MiniDV media. 25. WIA: Carnarvons decommissioned NASA satellite dish back in service after forty years 26. WIA: Amateur radio has been a hobby for well over 100 years 27. RAC: ISED Canada releases new basic amateur radio question bank 28. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is a success on Staten Island 29. ARRL: Long time Ham Radio Outlet employee is honored for sixty years in amateur radio 30. ARRL: News shorts from the ARRL 31. Transportation contracts are signed for the Bouvet Island 3Y0K team 32. RAC: 70 centimeter mesh network project to begin in Canada 33. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus 16. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain is looking for an Assistant Editor to fill a recent vacancy 35. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring System Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with advise on how to find your path in the amateur radio hobby. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us all aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1919 when in late December, radio was blacked out again. But this time it was nature's doing, not a government edict. Hams discovered, the shorter wavelengths were dead despite the fact that 600 meter signals were still pounding in. Amateurs were in the process of learning about solar cycles, and atmospheric propagation in an episode simply called, 'Freaks'. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  2. FEB 2

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1353

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1353 - Full Version Release Date: February 1, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2MOB, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Tammy Sawyer, KI5ODE, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:57:47 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1353 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MiniDisk and MiniDV Media Production 2. AMSAT: Hacking A Motorized RV Satellite Dish For Tracking Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: Carnarvons Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years 5. WIA: Amateur Radio Has Been A Hobby For Well Over 100 Years 6. WIA: The Radio Society of Great Britian Announces British Science Week 7. RAC: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Releases New Basic Amateur Question Bank 8. RI: Senators Cruz and Markey Reintroduce AM Radio Act In The Senate 9. ARRL: Warm Up At The 2025 Orlando HamCation To Be Held February 7th Thru The 9th 10. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute A Success On Staten Island 11. ARRL: Long Time Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honored For 60 Years In Amateur Radio 12. ARRL: News Shorts From The ARRL 13. Transportation Contracts Are Signed By The Bouvet 3Y0K Team 14. Clues To Solar Flares Seen As Coronal Loop Flickering 15. Southeastern VHF Conference Seeks Presenters 16. 70 Centimeter MESH Network Project In Canada 17. DXpedition To Mount Athos Is Stopped Among Controversy 18. Repeater Group Plans To Enhance Safety In Eastern Colorado 19. Historic Amateur Satellite QSO Honored By AMSAT Switzerland 20. CW Contester Rosel Zenker, DL3KWR, SK 21. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain releases new syllabus and other amateur news around the UK 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain publication RadCom has an editor vacancy 23. Monthly Volunteer Monitoring Report 24. National Contest Journal sponsored North American CW Sprint 25. ARRL: Upcoming radio sport contests and regional convention announcements 26. EAB: Secret Listeners: The story revealing the life of early amateur radio heros 27. AMSAT: SpaceX launches multiple ham satellites on a ride share mission 28. AMSAT: Two private moon landers have launched at once 29. AMSAT: A new ARISS proposal window is now open 30. RI: With a designation from President Trump, Brendan Carr is now the new Chairman of the FCC 31. HACK: Forget the coax, wire up your receive antennas with cat 6 cable 32. ARRL: Get ready for a ham radio open house on World Amateur Radio Day 33. ARRL: The ARRL club grant program awards a half million dollars to help grow amateur radio 34. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention date is announced 35. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum receives a gift of amateur radio 36. Ireland's Amateur Radio Magazine returns and is now published online 37. The Orlando HamCation announces its annual award recipients Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be here with Scene 7 of his open source project, "The Bald Yak". This time out, Onno covers building a circuit without that burnt chicken smell. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, will be here with another edition of A Century of Amateur Radio. This time out, Will has us board The Wayback Machine to 1916 when amateurs were experimenting with the atmosphere and trying to figure out how propagation worked, in a story called "Strangely Behaving Signals". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  3. JAN 26

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1352

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1352 - Full Version Release Date: January 25, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Tammy Walker, KI5ODE, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:47:31 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1352 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. EAB: Secret Listeners - Revealing The Life Of Amateur Radio Heroes 2. DLARC: What Is New At The Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Hamsats on Rideshare Mission 4. AMSAT: Two Private Moon Landers Have Launched At Once 5. AMSAT: Blue Origin New Glenn Reaches Orbit On Its First Launch 6. AMSAT: SpaceX Success & Failure In Starship Flight 7 7. AMSAT: New ARISS Proposal Window Is Now Open 8. AMSAT: AMSAT Satellite Shorts From All Over 9. WIA: Remotely Controlled Vehicles Over Starlink 10. WIA: Binghamton New York Radio Club Hosts Kids Day 11. RI: With Trump Designation, Brendan Carr Is Now FCC Chairman 12. HACK: Forget the Coax, Wire Up Your Antennas With Cat 6 Cable 13. ARRL: Get Ready For Ham Radio Open House On World Amateur Radio Day 2025 14. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program Awards A Half Million Dollars To Grow Ham Radio 15. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Funds Hardware For Florida Students To Make Contact With The ISS 16. ARRL: Ham Radio Demonstration Helps Survivors Of Violence At Camp 17. ARRL: Former QST Columnist, Doctor Emil Pocock, W3EP, Silent Key 18. ARRL: Winter Field Day Is This Weekend 19. ARRL: The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program To Conduct Research Campaign January 27th-31st 20. ARRL: The 76th Annual International DX Convention Is Announced 21. ARRL: The National Traffic System 2.0 Subcommittee Have Completed A Number Of Projects And Initiatives 22. ARRL: The Southeastern VHF Society Will Hold Its Annual Conference On April 4th and 5th, 2025 23. Wearable Avalanche Transceiver Helps To Pinpoint Trapped Skier 24. Lake Placid Olympic Museum Receives Amateur Radio Gift 25. Ofcom Announces More Privileges For Visiting Amateurs To The United Kingdom 26. Ham Radio Ireland Magazine Is Published On Line Once Again 27. Award Recipients Named By The Organizers Of The Orlando HamCation 28. Amateur Helps Find Children Lost During Pilgrimage 29: ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listing 30. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union to celebrate its upcoming 100th Anniversary 31. WIA: Are you ready for a twenty dollar windfall from Apple? 32. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director of The Waltons and Matlock, SK at 82 33. FCC: FCC proposes $200,000 in pirate radio fines 34. FCC: FCC seeks comments on reallocating the 1675-1680 MegaHertz band for shared uses 35. ARRL: The league issues a call for QST articles about Field Day Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us why he moved his WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter beacon to 15 meters. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR and A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the year 1920, where we find a young radio engineer by the name of Edwin H. Armstrong gave QST permission to reprint his article entitled A New Method for the Reception of Weak Signals at Short Wavelength. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  4. JAN 19

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1351

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1351 - Full Version Release Date: January 18, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 2:05:23 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1351 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: India Launches SpaDeX Satellites With Amateur Radio Experiment 2. AMSAT: Parker Solar Probe Achieves Closest Ever Approach To The Sun 3. AMSAT: Cold War Mystery: Why Did Jimmy Carter Save The Space Shuttle? 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union To Celebrate 100th Anniversary 6. WIA: Are You Ready For A Twenty Dollar Windfall? 7. WIA: New Zealand Straight Key Night Coming Up 8. HR: Harvey Laidman, W8DX, Director on ‘The Waltons' and ‘Matlock,' Dies at 82 9. FCC: FCC Proposes $200,000 In Pirate Radio Fines 10. FCC: FCC Seeks Comment On Reallocating 1675-1680 MegaHertz Band For Shared Uses 11. ARRL: Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, Silent Key 12. ARRL: Ham Radio Operators Serving During California Firestorms 13. ARRL: Suspicious Bangladesh Border Ham Band Signals Now Of Interest To Indian Intelligence 14. ARRL: Call For QST Articles About ARRL Field Day 15. ARRL: A Weekend Of January Contests 16. ARRL: The Northern Arizona DX Association Hosting Anual W7P Pluto Discovery Anniversary Special Event 17. RI: FCC: Trump Names Olivia Trusty As Next FCC Commissioner Nominee 18. Los Angeles Repeater Network Stays Up During California Firestorms 19. Are You Ready For Winter Field Day? 20. Museum On The Campus Of The Voice Of America Has Reopening Planned 21. One Of The Holy Grail Islands On The Air To Be Activated 22. Special Event Station In The Netherlands Is Hosted By Army Signal Regiment 23. Radio Club Limburg, The North Limburg Region, The Netherlands, Will Activate Special Event Station PA8ØOV 24. ARRL announces that DXCC processing returns to normal operations 25. AMSAT: AMSAT student members win Quarter Century Wireless Association Scholarships 26. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One turns 75 27. WIA: Researchers develop a new type of Lithium Ion Battery 28. WIA: Android SmartPhones are helping to map the ionosphere 29. RW: Amateur Radio Operator must pay fine in first responder interference case 30. HKD: Taking down the power grid over the air 31. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute is coming to a town near you in 2025 32. ARRL: ARRL launches it year long Dream Station Sweepstakes 33. ARRL: The 129th Boston Marathon will take place Monday, April 21st, 2025. Amateurs provide communications 34. ARRL: ARRL announces changes in the Kentucky Section 35. Public broadcasters in Switzerland shut down analog FM repeaters in favor of DAB+ and streaming 36. NVIS packet radio group is looking forward to expanding its network 37. Amateurs in Germany receive extended privileges for the six and four meter bands 38. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport contests and regional convention listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, takes a short break from his "Bald Yak" Open Source Project to talk about The 2025 Ham Challenge * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, and upcoming radiosport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL and Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the earlier 1920's when the first female hams began to appear on the amateur radio scene, in a segment we'll call, "The Ladies are Coming." ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  5. JAN 12

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1350

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1350 - Full Version Release Date: January 11, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Steve Sawyer, K1FRC, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:32:18 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1350 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Student Members Win QCWA Scholarships 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region One Turns 75 4. WIA: Charged! A New Type Of Lithium Ion Battery Premiers 5. WIA: Solid State Era Started Earlier Than Commonly Thought 6. WIA: Android Smartphones Help Map The Ionosphere 7. RW: Amateur Radio Operator Must Pay In First Responder Interference Case 8. HKD: Taking Down The Power Grid Over Radio 9. ARRL: ARRL Teachers Institute: Coming To A Town Near You 10. ARRL: ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio Launches Dream Station Sweepstakes 11. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Remembers Long Time Volunteer Terry Redding, W6LMJ, Silent Key 12. ARRL: The 129th Boston Marathon Will Take Place Monday April 21st, 2025 13. ARRL: Changes In The ARRL Kentucky Section 14. ARRL: ARRL Foundation Extends The Application Deadline 15. Public Broadcasters In Switzerland Shuts Down Analog FM Repeaters 16. Near Vertical Incidence Skywave/NVIS Packet Radio Group Looking To Expand Their Network 17. Civil Service Officers In India Gain Amateur Radio Courses 18. Amateurs In Germany Receive Extended Privileges For Six And Four Meters 19. Australian Repeater System Off The Air Due To Storm Damage 20. DMR Base Stations Established In Karnataka's Rural Schools For Operating Amateur Radio 21. ARRL: Upcoming radiosport contests and regional conventions listing 22. AMSAT: NASA's Deep Space Network is upgraded with the installation of a new antenna system 23. WIA: United States considers ban on home internet router manufacturer TP Link 24. WIA: University of Southern California sets new record / SpaceX is preparing its latest booster rocket 25. ARRL: CWops announces the 2024 advancing the art of CW Awards 26. ARRL: Winter Field Day is coming up 27. ARRL: HamSci will hold its 2025 Community Workshop on March 14th & 15th 28. ARRL: Registration is now open for the 2025 Dayton Contest University 29. NASA: NASA's Parker Solar Probe touches the sun 30. The month of January brings Straight Key Month 31. ARRL: This months Volunteer Monitor Report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will be covering Scene Six of his ongoing open source project entitled, The Bald Yak. This week's episode is called, "Chaos Will Reign" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from Solar Prognosticator Tadd Cook, K7RA * Our Original amateur radio historian, the late Bill Continelli, W2XOY, returns in an encore presentation of one of his informative segments. This time, Bill will be talking about how you should develop what he calls a radio bag, a go kit of radios and accessories that you take with you when you walk out the door ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  6. JAN 5

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1349

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1349 - Full Version Release Date: January 4, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:29:27 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1349 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: NASA's Deep Space Network Upgraded With New Antenna Installation 2. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 3. WIA: Amateur WSPR Transmission May Hold Key To Finding Lost Aircraft 4. WIA: US Considers Ban On Home Internet Router Maker TP Link. 5. WIA: University of Southern California Set New Record / SpaceX Preps New Booster 6. WIA: Young Leader, Bright Future: McKenzie KO4GLN On Ham Radio and Beyond 7. ARD: Holmesburg Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club's Service Project Recognized Around the World 8. GIZ: Federal Court Throttles Biden's Net Neutrality Rules On His Way Out The Door 9. ARRL: CWops Announces 2024 Advancing The Art Of CW Award 10. ARRL: Winter Field Day 2025 11. ARRL: RTTY Roundup Is This Weekend 12. ARRL: HamSCI Will Hold Its Community Workshop On March 14th and 15th, 2025 13. ARRL: QuartzFest, Will Be Held January 19th Through The 25th, 2025 14. ARRL: Registration Is Now Open For The 2025 Dayton ConTest University 15. Gains And Successes Are How The HandiHam Program Ended 2024 16. NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun 17. CQ DX Marathon Begins Another Year Long Contest 18. Local Library Receives Radio Books From Georgia Club 19. January Brings Straight Key Month 20. DxPedition Challenges Are Hot Topic At DX Convention 21. Deutsches Museum Calls QRZ For Its Centennial Celebration 22. W3TL, Joseph Henry Stormer, Silent Key 23. Year Long Celebration On The Air For Britain's Railroads 24. ARRL: Upcoming Radio Sport Contest and regional Convention Listings 25. January Volunteer Monitoring Report 26. TVT: FCC fines Paramount Global $244,952 for Emergency Alert Violations 27. AMSAT: Nasa astronauts face more time in space with return delayed 28. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union identifies non-amateur radio signals on HF 29. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships - Final weeks to apply 30. Bill to keep AM radio in US vehicles hits a new obstacle 31. Recent high intensity solar storms are cause for concern with satellite constellations 32. A new GMRS/General Mobile Radio Service repeater is established for a local California community. 33. Deutsche Amateur Radio Club programming to debut on new BBC Shortwave 34. An infusion of new radio equipment helps an upstate New York Search and Rescue Group Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB will be covering week five of his open source build called "The Bald Yak". This week's topic is, "The bugging". * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation and Solar Weather Forecast from the ARRL and Tadd Cook, K7RA * Will Rogers - K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to when the World War One armistice was signed and amateurs will finally getting back on the air, except that getting back on the air meant everyone had to be re-licensed. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  7. 12/29/2024

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1348

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1348 - Full Version Release Date: December 28, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:27:24 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1348 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. TVT: FCC Fines Paramount Global $244,952 For Emergency Alert Violations 2. AMSAT: Taiwan's PARUS-T1A Launch Failed 3. AMSAT: NASA Astronauts Face More Time In Space With Return Delayed 4. AMSAT: NASA Now Knows Why Its Mars Helicopter Crashed 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Identifies Non Amateur Signals On HF 7. WIA: SARL/South Africa Radio League Announces Centenary Technical Symposium 8. WIA: HamSci Finds Atmospheric Gravity Waves 9. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships - Final Weeks to Apply 10. Bill To Keep AM Radio In US Vehicles Hits A New Obstacle 11. Solar Storm Impact On Satellites May Be Cause For Concern 12. A New GMRS Repeater Is Established By Hams For A Local California Community 13. Scout Jamboree In Australia To Be Calling CQ 14. Deutsche Amateur Radio Club Programming To Debut On BBC Shortwave 15. An Infusion Of New Equipment Helps Rescue Group In Upstate New York 16. ARRL Systems Service Disruption - DXCC Update 17. AMSAT: Five CubeSats are successfully deployed from the Kiba Module on the space station 18. AMSAT: European Space Agency Proba 3 satellite are launched to create artificial eclipses 19. FCC: FCC Chairwoman looks to allocate more spectrum for space launches ground control 20. ARRL: ARRL asks hams to send radiograms vias the web 21. ARRL: ARRL 2025 Annual Awards recognize excellence in amateur radio 22. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day is coming up soon on January 4th, 2025 23. ARRL: The Intrepid DX Group has announced the winners of the 5th annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 24. ARRL: Straight Key Night is January 1st, 2025 25. Nominees for the CQ Hall of Fame is sought by IndexA 26. Scanner radio manufacturer The Whistler Group shuts down operations 28. Use of HF Radio across Alaska is on the rise with the Civil Air Patrol Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will discuss his ongoing open source project entitled, 'The Bald Yak'. This is week four of the project entitled, 'Time'. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers - K5WLR returns with another edition of 'A Century Of Amateur Radio'. This time, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the end of World War One as amateurs are slowly getting back on the air. This week's episode is entitled, 'Naval Maneuvers'. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

  8. 12/22/2024

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1347

    PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1347 - Full Version - SPECIAL EXPANDED HOLIDAY EDITION Release Date: December 21, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:36:20 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1347 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Five CubeSats Successfully Deployed From Kibo Module On The Space Station 2. AMSAT: Celebrate SO-50: Amateur Radio Special Event Marks 22nd Anniversary 3. AMSAT: European Space Agency Proba-3 Satellites Launch To Create Artificial Solar Eclipses 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. HACK: The World Morse Code Championship 6. NASA: Stranded Space Station Astronauts Won't Be Home For Christmas 7. FCC: FCC Chairwoman Looks To Allocate More Spectrum For Space Launches 8. ARRL: ARRL Asks Hams to Send Radiograms Via The Web 9. ARRL: ARRL Annual Awards Recognize Excellence In Ham Radio 10. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarships - Final Weeks to Apply 11. ARRL: ARRL Kids Day Is Only A Couple Of Weeks Away On January 4th, 2025 12. ARRL: The Intrepid DX Group Has Announced The Winners Of The Fifth Annual Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest 13. ARRL: Straight Key Night Will Be January 1st, 2025 14. For Its Upcoming Big Year, HamSci Plans A Conference 15. Nominees For The CQ Hall Of Fame Is Sought By The International DX Association, IndexA 16. Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association Marks Its 50th Year Anniversary 17. Scanner Manufacturer The Whistler Group Shuts Down Operations 18. Use Of HF Radio In Alaska Is On The Rise With The Civil Air Patrol 19. Award Winning Dx'er Antonio Gonzalez, EA5RM SK 20. ARRL: Upcoming Contest Sheet and Upcoming Regional Conventions Listing 21. WIA: ARRL is warning members about amateur radio gear price increases due to proposed tariffs 22. WIA: The Saga of South American Satellite Pirates 23. WIA: The US is vulnerable to Chinas Salt Typhoon and The Russian Fancy Bear Cyberattacks 24. ARD: The Alexanderson Alternator SAW Grimeton to transmit CW Christmas Message on December 24th 25. ARD: The International Amateur Radio Union identifies non-amateur transmissions in the amateur HF bands 26. ARD: AM Night to be held on the air on December 26th 27. FCC: The FCC opens the entire 6 GigaHertz band to low power devices 28. ARRL: The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology is now accepting applications for 2025 29. BBC: The widespread use of CW is highlighted in a BBC Radio Documentary 30. TVT: Trump picks former broadcast news anchor from Phoenix, Kari Lake, to head The Voice of America Plus these Special Features This Week: * We'll visit with Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit. * Australia's own Onno Benschop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will be here with another update on his open source project. The Bald Yak - Week 3 - Push To Talk * Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This Week, will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the end of World War One, where we find hams coming home and slowly getting back on the air in a segment called, "Waking Up". * We will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more. * As is our tradition during the holiday week, we will present a monologue by the late Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, as he talks about having a serious case of the radio bug when he was in high school, and how it affected his life. * And, we will have a tribute to the late Orrin Brand with two of his popular segments, the first is a tongue in cheek look at hamfests, and his annual read of "A Hams Night Before Christmas" Courtesy of The Rain Report. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

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This Week in Amateur Radio is North America's premier news magazine of the airwaves. We're coming back from hiatus! Along with the news, TWIAR has several weekly features including Amateur Radio History and Archives with Bill Continelli, the Random Access Thought with the late Bill Baran, Leo Laporte with tech news from TWiT, AMSAT news with Bruce Paige, and much more!

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    George Bowen, W2XBS
  • Years Active
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    189
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